Major Darknet Bust - Crypto Adversary Legal Research Oppurtunity

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 16:55:25 PDT 2019


https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/south-korean-national-and-hundreds-others-charged-worldwide-takedown-largest-darknet-child
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6470077-Redacted-JONG-WOO-SON.html

https://gizmodo.com/huge-child-porn-ring-busted-as-authorities-cite-ability-1839098730
https://www.coindesk.com/us-law-enforcement-traces-bitcoin-transactions-to-nab-largest-child-porn-site
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21273277
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/10/16/2011240/huge-child-porn-ring-busted-as-authorities-cite-ability-to-crack-bitcoin-privacy
https://old.reddit.com/r/darknet/comments/dit5bj/irs_followed_bitcoin_transactions_resulting_in/
https://old.reddit.com/r/deepweb/comments/dit1jc/south_korean_national_and_hundreds_of_others/


All the darknet busts yield years and hundreds of court cases
which can be analyzed for technical capabilities, parallel construction,
dropped cases from state secrets, dumped into datamines for
search analytics, etc. And lots of people who could be queried
for ops analysis, further insight, etc.


"The agencies have shared data from the seized server with law
enforcement around the world to assist in identifying and prosecuting
customers of the site.  This has resulted in leads sent to 38
countries and yielded arrests of 337 subjects around the world.  The
operation has resulted in searches of residences and businesses of
approximately 92 individuals in the United States.  Notably, the
operation is responsible for the rescue of at least 23 minor victims
residing in the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom, who were
being actively abused by the users of the site."


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